Toni Pohl

Microsoft Band SDK Preview is available! For the details see here: https://developer.microsoftband.com/ “The Microsoft Band SDK Preview gives developers access to the sensors available on the band, as well as the ability to create and send notifications to tiles. Enhance and extend the experience of your applications to your customers’ wrists. More at https://developer.microsoftband.com/.” see https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Band/1.3.10219-preview It´s cool that there´s a NuGet package for the Microsoft Band SDK. Simply run the following command in the Package Manager Console: ...

As announced here D365 version 3.2 has support of security groups. This also includes management of “mail enabled security groups”. The differences between “mail enabled security group” and “distribution group” are explained in TechNet, here´s a quick definition: Mail-enabled security group: A mail-enabled security group is an Active Directory universal security group object that can be used to assign access permissions to resources in Active Directory and can also be used to distribute messages. ...

If you are an ASP.NET developer you should be interested in the new ASP.NET vNext (or ASP.NET 5). Download this free eBook sponsored by tools producer Telerik: https://www.telerik.com/campaigns/aspnet/vnext After providing your name, your email address and your country you can download the free ebook “20 burning questions about ASP.NET vNext answered”. Enjoy!

Do you want to change the design of your SharePoint site easily? This is just a quick introduction how to customize a SharePoint 2013 Site (SP on premises or Office 365) with custom CSS. With custom branding you can completely change the design of a SharePoint site, like in this sample of a Contoso SPO site. The steps to accomplish custom branding with CSS are: You need to be a site administrator (to activate the features and have full access to the site) The default site settings show not many options for *Look and Feel. *My demo site starts with the URL https://[tenant].sharepoint.com/sites/design1 so the URL for the Site Settings is similar like here: https://[tenant].sharepoint.com/sites/design1/_layouts/15/start.aspx#/_layouts/15/settings.aspx So first open Site Collection Administration / Site collection features. The page Site Settings : Site Collection Features follows, the URL goes like here: https://[tenant]sharepoint.com/sites/design1/_layouts/15/start.aspx#/_layouts/15/ManageFeatures.aspx?Scope=Site Active the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature: This usually can take some minutes… When this is done the feature looks like here: No go back to Site Settings and open *Site Actions / Manage site features. (Alternatively you can simply delete the ?Scope=Site parameter from the Site Collection feature URL) 6. Now active the SharePoint Server Publishing feature in the Site: After the activation the feature looks like here: 7. When going back to the Site Settings the result is that the Look and Feel group includes more options. 8. We are almost done. Now it´s possible to open the *Master page *settings. https://[tenant].sharepoint.com/sites/design1/_layouts/15/ChangeSiteMasterPage.aspx In here the Master Page for this site can be selected. The important part is the *Alternate CSS URL *below. 9. When opening the Alternate CSS URL group you can specify your own customized CSS file. 10. When clicking Browse you can upload your own CSS file and then select it (as shown above). In this sample the path to the CSS file goes like /sites/design1/Style Library/mystyle.css ...

SharePoint 2013 is in the market since more than two years by now. And SharePoint 2016 is about to come soon. Beside all the standard features the SharePoint framework can be extended with custom solutions to automate processes within the system. In 2013 we have a new App Model which solves a lot of issues we had with custom solutions in the previous versions of SharePoint. In this article I want to point out why using the App Model is a good idea and why I recommend using it. But let´s have a look into that step by step. We start with the types of solutions developers can build on top of SharePoint. ...

The Office 365 summit toured through a lot of worldwide locations. Last week the roadshow stopped by in Amsterdam – the European event. We have been there and enjoyed the summit (for some impressions and Martina´s session see here). In Amsterdam there have been almost 1.300 participants, about 650 IT-Pros and 150 developers. The rest of the audience have been in the sales, education and adaption tracks and from Microsoft. We created a small statistics about the event on Twitter. See the details here: ...

The Office 365 Summit took place in Amsterdam these days (from 12 to 13th February). Office 365 summit is a free event to get in touch with Microsoft experts about the SaaS Microsoft cloud services around Office. The summit “Office 365 Summit is traveling around the world and delivering technical and sales training direct from the source with Microsoft experts. These two day workshops provide deep technical and sales readiness on all our productivity workloads for IT Professional, Developers, Sales, Adoption and Education.”, see the details on https://summit.office.com/events/office-365-summit-amsterdam. ...

With D365 version 3.2 there comes full support of security groups with two new modules: security groups for managing these groups and memberships and the new administration / assign security groups module for assigning existing security groups to a particular OU. The security groups list works in the same way as all other lists in D365: new security groups can be created, deleted, members can be added and deleted and the OU assignment of a group can be changed. The search helps for getting access to the desired groups quickly. ...

Für alle Developer und IT-Pros, die sich noch nicht (viel) mit Microsoft Azure befasst haben, gibt es ganz frisch ein kostenfreies eBook mit einem aktuellen Überblick über Azure und die wichtigsten Dienste in Azure. Das eBook “Fundamentals of Azure” ist das erste Buch aus der Reihe “Microsoft Azure Essentials” von Microsoft Press. Fundamentals of Azure wurde von Michael S. Collier und Robin E. Shahan geschrieben und umfasst 246 Seiten – mit einem Vorwort von VP Scott Guthrie. ...

We are very happy and also proud that our CEO, Martina Grom, was awarded as Microsoft Regional Directory (RD) shortly! There’s a lot going on over at Microsoft these days. The RD program is designed to honor world-wide technology leaders who are an active part of the community and who have impact in sharing knowledge around the globe. See the new RD-website https://msrd.io/ for mission statements. The Microsoft RD program exists since 1993 (for an older description see also wikipedia.org). ...